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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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